Silent cells deep in your spinal cord may hold a surprising key to healing after devastating injuries and brain disease. A ...

When the cell's recycling stations, the lysosomes, start leaking, it can become dangerous. Toxic waste risks spreading and ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that targeting a specific immune process ...

Between 250,000 and 500,000 people suffer a spinal cord injury each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Such injuries have historically been considered to lack the ability to ...

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. There is currently no ...

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Anoxic brain injury, also called anoxic encephalopathy or hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, is a life threatening condition resulting from a complete lack of oxygen to the brain. Anoxic brain injury (ABI ...